Brazilian supermodel Isabelli Fontana vaccinates children against polio in India

Evanston: Brazilian model and Rotary polio ambassador Isabelli Fontana travelled to New Delhi on March 17-18 to administer life saving polio vaccine and visited patients at St. Stephen's Hospital in New Delhi.

Star of many advertising campaigns, high fashion model, Victoria's Secret model, current face of L'Oreal for Latin America and mother of two, Fontana signed on to be an ambassador for polio eradication in 2013.

Although India was declared polio-free last year, Fontana will vaccinate children to ensure the disease does not re-emerge.

"It is an honour to travel to India and vaccinate children against this paralysing disease. We cannot forget that immunizations must continue to keep polio from returning to India and being spread across the globe. I have participated in many campaigns in my homeland of Brazil for the same reason," Fontana said

India, once the world's epicenter of polio, was certified polio-free in March 2014 due to a massive joint effort by the Government of India, Rotary and its partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, a public-private partnership that includes Rotary, the World Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).